Re: power management

> Does anyone know where I can get a Linux distro that has good power
> management?  .....or otherwise show me how to get redhat to let the
> processor cool down, and spindown the hard drive?

Been fighting with the drive spindown on my laptop for years.
"Spin down! Now!!! Out out damn spot!"

Finally ran it in Win98 for a few days and discovered
it's just as bad (or worse). Some sneaky thing in BIOS spins
up my drive. I gave up on it.

Anyway --

Search for tips on running Linux on laptops,
they will tell you all about things like using hdparm to set the
spindown time and noflushd and things like that.

Here's a place to start

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Laptop-HOWTO.html#ss19.7

On Redhat, change the line in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks from
	EXTRA_PARAMS=
to
	EXTRA_PARAMS="-S 255"
for instance to set spindown to 21 minutes -- read the hdparm manpage


Brian